Contabo vs Scaleway
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Entry pricing: Contabo from €5.50/mo (Cloud VPS 4) vs Scaleway from €0.43/mo (STARDUST1-S).
Entry plans at a glance
Full pricing
Contabo plans
Prices last verified: July 20, 2026Scaleway plans
Prices last verified: July 20, 2026Pros & cons
Unbeatable on paper specs per euro; pick it for bulk RAM/storage workloads where consistent CPU performance is not critical.
Watch the extras: instance prices exclude storage and IPv4, but unmetered egress makes it a sleeper pick for bandwidth-heavy small services.
Frequently asked questions
Scaleway has the cheaper entry plan: €0.43/month vs €5.50/month (Cloud VPS 4 vs STARDUST1-S, verified against official pricing pages).
Contabo offers unmetered outbound traffic under a fair-use policy; Scaleway offers unmetered outbound traffic under a fair-use policy.
Contabo: Germany, UK, USA, Singapore, Japan, Australia. Scaleway: Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw.
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